I was thinking recently the police will probably get in on the drone act. There's been kids in the area causing a few disturbances, mainly in the nearby forest... lighting fires etc. The police are too slow to detect the crimes, so why not fly a drone up.

The video was made to be a warning probably with the goal of international treaty to prevent autonomous weapons. I think this is a worthy idea, but a bigger problem is that the technology is already at the consumer level.

I can't find it now but approx 18 months ago there was an article about UK army using swarm-tech drones on a practice maneuver. They had the swarm do collective reconnaissance on a village. Anyway, swarm-tech is pretty mature now. It's been 5+ years or so -a lifetime in drone years- since MIT, etc. wow-ed us with a couple of drones playing ping pong.

STILL very much the go-to workhorse plane for the Coast Guard. I think the new class of c130s is the 130-J or somesuch. My town is the mother base for them on the east coast. I think they beefed up the already beefy frame and engines. My Coastie aviation friends tell me that the wing infrastructure on these is incredible to behold.